Editing Dave Matthews (section)

==Early life==
David John Matthews was born on January 9, 1967 in [[Johannesburg]],<ref>{{Cite book |last=Martell |first=Nevin |title=Dave Matthews Band: Music for the People |publisher=[[Pocket Books]] |year=1999 |isbn=9780671035440 |pages=3}}</ref> the third of four children born to South African parents, John and Val Matthews.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Burdick |first=Debi |date=2019-01-14 |title=How Dave Matthews gives back to his hometown of Charlottesville • Red Light Management |url=https://www.redlightmanagement.com/how-dave-matthews-gives-back-to-his-hometown-of-charlottesville/ |access-date=2024-07-26 |website=Red Light Management}}</ref> At age two, Matthews moved with his family to [[Yorktown Heights|Yorktown Heights, New York]], where his father, a physicist, started working for [[IBM]].<ref>{{cite book |first=Nevin |last=Martell |title=The Dave Matthews Band: Music for the People |edition=revised |location=New York |publisher=Simon and Schuster |date=2004 |pages=3–4 |isbn=0-7434-9382-6 |oclc=762211281 }}</ref>

In 1974, the Matthews family moved to [[Cambridge, England]], for a year, then returned to New York, where his father died from lung cancer in 1977 when Matthews was ten years old.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Baker |first=KC |date=2008-09-11 |title=Julia Roberts and Dave Matthews Rock Out for Cancer Concert |url=https://people.com/celebrity/julia-roberts-and-dave-matthews-rock-out-for-cancer-concert/ |access-date=2023-02-01 |website=Peoplemag |language=en}}</ref> At some point, while residing in New York, Matthews attended his first concert, when his mother took him to a performance by [[Pete Seeger]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Gardner |first=Elysa |url=http://content.usatoday.net/dist/custom/gci/InsidePage.aspx?cId=jconline&sParam=34946928.story |title=Jconline – Postcard from the road: Pete Seeger's all-star hootenanny |publisher=Content.usatoday.net |access-date=2012-04-15}}</ref> The family returned to Johannesburg in 1977.<ref name=nyt/>

Matthews naturalized as a U.S. citizen in 1980.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Sinclair |first1=Les |title=Dave Matthews To Be Monticello Naturalization Speaker |url=https://wina.com/local/dave-matthews-to-be-monticello-naturalization-speaker/ |website=Newsradio WINA |access-date=1 November 2021}}</ref>

Upon Matthews's graduation from secondary school in 1985, he was faced with [[conscription]] into the South African military just as [[End Conscription Campaign|civil disobedience]] to the practice was becoming widespread.<ref>At Ease, ECC newsletter, May 1986, cited in {{cite book |first=Jacklyn |last=Cock |title=Colonels and Cadres: War and Gender in South Africa |publisher=Oxford University Press |date=1991 |page=81 |isbn=0-19-570706-0 |oclc=925251407 }}</ref> As a [[Religious Society of Friends|Quaker]] (and consequently pacifist), Matthews left South Africa to avoid service.<ref name=CNN>Whitefield, Fredricka (2005). [http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0505/14/pitn.01.html "Profiles of U2 and The Dave Matthews Band"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303185632/http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0505/14/pitn.01.html |date=March 3, 2016 }} CNN.com (accessed May 3, 2006)</ref>

Matthews moved to New York in 1986 where he worked for [[IBM]] for a short time,<ref name=nyt>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/31/arts/pop-jazz-a-band-that-built-a-career-from-the-ground-up.html?pagewanted=2 |title=POP/JAZZ; A Band That Built a Career From the Ground Up |work=The New York Times |date=May 31, 1998 |access-date=2013-12-04}}</ref> then joined his mother that same year in [[Charlottesville, Virginia]], a town Matthews's family had lived in before he was born.<ref name=nyt/> In Charlottesville, he became part of the local music community, rehearsing in a warehouse owned by [[Roulhac Toledano]].<ref>{{Citation |title=Roulhac Toledano (2014) | date=July 4, 2022 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiKwWKfKXeU&t=1h8m |access-date=2024-03-07 |language=en}}</ref> Although Matthews had started playing the guitar at age nine, it was only in Charlottesville that he started performing publicly.<ref name=nyt/> Matthews met local star (and future collaborator) [[Tim Reynolds]] through mutual friend, Nic Cappon. In time, Reynolds had Matthews join him on stage, and Matthews was persuaded to record some of his own songs.<ref name=nyt/><ref name=VH1>[http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/driven/74427/episode_about.jhtml "Driven: Dave Matthews&nbsp;– About the Episode"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041211174015/http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/driven/74427/episode_about.jhtml |date=December 11, 2004}} VH1.com (accessed May 4, 2006)</ref> This led to his first professional musical gig at a [[modern dance]] performance by the ''Miki Liszt Dance Company'', based at McGuffey Art Center in Charlottesville, singing "Meaningful Love", composed by [[John D'earth]] and Dawn Thompson.<ref name=nancies>{{cite web|url=http://nancies.org/articles/010110a.shtml |title=Interview With Greg Howard |publisher=nancies.org |access-date=2012-12-17}}</ref> In 1991, he hatched the idea to form his own band.<ref name=nyt/> Before recording his first demo, Matthews bartended at Miller's in Charlottesville.<ref name=ProQuest1194320>{{cite magazine |id={{ProQuest|1194320}} |last1=Scaggs |first1=Austin |title=The Music Q&A: Dave Matthews |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=13 November 2003 |page=34 }}</ref>